Is Inequality in America Irreversible? – that’s the title question of Chuck Collins’ new book. Recent evidence suggests the answer may be yes, but Collins, a scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies think tank says the real answer is no. Of course, Chuck has some potential real-world solutio...

When he wrote his best-seller @War, 5 years ago, Shane Harris could see the problem coming. Now, as he reports for the Washington Post, what to do about cyber-warfare mercenaries is a red-hot question…especially when they’re being asked by employers like the UAE to spy on Americans. One former ...

Week after week, the US military stages air attacks on the Somali Islamist terrorist group Al-Shabaab. Always the official reports say, a number -- often one, two or 3 dozen – terrorists are killed and there are no civilian casualties. American journalist Amanda Sperber is one of the few who v...

"Here’s a guy who sees a problem and sets out to fix it…and it kills him.” That’s the story of US Navy LT Wesley Van Dorn as tersely summed up by a member of his flight squadron at the Norfolk Naval Air Station. The title of Zachary Stauffer’s documentary asks the question: Who Killed Lt. Van D...

Over the past 30 years, Alfredo Corchado has established himself as one of the best reporters covering the US-Mexico borderlands for the Wall Street Journal and Dallas Morning News. His assignments have allowed him to explore both his Mexican and American roots, the subject of his powerful and ...

With one eye trained on the American push towards a peace agreement with the Taliban in Afghanistan (undertaken so far to the exclusion of our allies, the Afghan government) and the other on the sudden explosion of warfare between India and Pakistan, the fine Washington Post correspondent Pamela ...

It’s easy to believe a foreign war is over when the American troops come home, but life today in Iraq, almost 8 years after full-scale combat ended is far from peacetime. AP Baghdad correspondent Philip Issa on the daily reality of Iraq and why President Trump’s statement that the real reason w...

President Trump’s fantasy “National Security Emergency” on our Southern border has been taking a beating recently. The top military commander for homeland defense sys he sees no military threat from Mexico, and experts on the drug trade say the wall is largely irrelevant to stopping the flow of ...

As the Trump White House shows its contempt for immigrants, perhaps the President should think about Joseph Pulitzer…a 17 year old fleeing from poverty in Hungary…brought to America to be cannon-fodder in the Civil War. He taught himself English and revolutionized journalism, publishing in New Y...

Antisemitism is very much in the news….with recent accusations against and an apology from Minnesota Congresswoman Ilhan Omar… and headline political statements denouncing hatred against Jews in the United Kingdom and France. What better time to talk with Deborah Lipstadt, author of the new bookA...

Hepatitis C is now a curable disease, but the cure demands months of regular treatments. How convenient that so many of New Mexico’s Hep C patients are in prison, where follow-up treatments can be administered. Or could be. But of 3000 cases, only 46 are getting medical care. Investigative rep...

It’s tax-paying time again in America and what better time for America’s Money Answers Man, Jordan Goodman, to sort through the changes taking effect right now from President Trump’s tax law of late 2017? What was promised before the bill was passed? Capital investment and job creation? What’s ...

Dead of winter seems a fine time to think about the ever-growing threat to lives and property from wildfires. In part because of the ever-growing influence of climate change, we in NM are just 3 months shy of fire season. A very well-made reminder is Alex Jablonski’s documentary WILDLAND, which...

Emmanuel Macron won the Presidency of France promising to bring new ideas to a more people-connected government. But his rule has been called regal, distant, stuck with old-school trickle down economic ideas and tone-deaf to the people. And that was before he went to diplomatic war with Italy a...

The County Commission in poor, underpopulated Mora County in Northeastern New Mexico voted to ban fracking. Their ordinance was overturned in Albuquerque Federal Court, but one Commissioner who lost his seat for backing the ban says, Mora County set an example that’s been more successfully adapt...

After a couple of decades as a community leader and advocate in Oakland, California, Sister Simone Campbell went national, establishing the NETWORK Lobby for Catholic Social Justice and travelling the country as part The Nuns on the Bus. She recently spent a week in New Mexico, listening to poor...

The US and its hemispheric allies want to send humanitarian aid across the Colombian border into Venezuela, but President Nicolas Maduro is shut the frontier to keep out the needed, but he says, humiliating offer of food and medicine. Joshua Goodman , Andean News Director for AP, the Associated ...

America’s top 3 security officers, the heads of the FBI and the CIA and Director of National Intelligence say one thing; President Trump says another. The Islamic State is not defeated, say the experts; they will be soon, says the President. And there are profound disagreements about the nuclear...

The economic and political implosion in Venezuela has sent millions of people out of the country – between 2 ½ and 3 million, says the United Nations. More than a million refugees are now living in Colombia… and top government officials predict that number could double in a couple of years. Ch...

It’s news when Israel shoots missiles at Iranian military facilities in Syria. But it’s bigger news when they publicly announce it and say they’ve done it hundreds of times. Kenneth M. Pollack of the American Enterprise Institute and author of Armies of Sand: The Past, Present, and Future of Ara...